The Most Common Car Accident Injuries

Although car accidents can cause many different injuries, to virtually any part of your body, these are the most common car accident injuries . . .

Face and Head Injuries - such as a scrape, bruise, laceration, fracture, TMJ, dental injury.

Brain Injuries - such as a concussion, post-concussion syndrome, closed head injury, traumatic brain injury.

Neck Injuries - such as a sprain, strain, whiplash, fracture, cervical radiculopathy, disc injury.

Shoulder and Arm Injuries - such as a laceration, sprain, strain, fracture, dislocation, rotator cuff injury.

Back Injuries - such as a sprain, strain, fracture, disc injury, thoracic spine injury, lumbar radiculopathy, lumbar spine injury.

Leg, Knee and Foot Injuries - such as a laceration, bruise, fracture, sprain, strain, dislocation, ligament injury, hip injury, knee injury, foot injury.

Psychological Injuries - such as a post traumatic stress disorder.

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Things You Should Know About Car Accident Injuries

Is there always a direct relationship between the severity of the car accident and the seriousness of the injury?

No.

Major accidents usually cause major injuries and minor accidents often result in little or no injury.

But you've probably heard about car crashes where a car was totaled but the driver . . . miraculously . . . walked away unharmed. And, you have also probably heard about the opposite situation, where a relatively minor car accident left a driver with injuries that caused a lifetime of problems.

Are all car accident injuries obvious right away?

Many are, of course. But some aren't.

As a result of the trauma of the car accident, your body reflexively produces hormones called endorphins which are painkillers. Because of the excitement of the accident and the production of endorphins, you might not know right away that you have been injured.

So what should you do if you suspect that have been injured in a car accident?

You should be examined by a doctor if you have any symptoms of an injury during the first week or two after your car accident, even if it was a fairly low speed impact or a small damage collision.

Better safe than sorry.

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